Re: Two video cards / Xorg crashes in sid
On 4/7/07, Nelson Castillo <nelsoneci@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a good start, you could also try older versions of
> xserver-xorg-video-nv and xserver-xorg-core and see if it broke in a
> specific upgrade. You can find older packages here,
> http://snapshot.debian.net/
>
> Otherwise, I suggest you use the reportbug tool to file a bug report for
> xserver-xorg-video-nv.
I went to experimental and I found something.
aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-nv/experimental
xserver-xorg-core/experimental
libdrm2/experimental xfonts-scalable
It has to do with "Cannot read V_BIOS (3)". It seems that it happens
with a lot of people when they have a secondary video card in some boards.
There's a weird solution (at least weird to me :)) that involves extracting
a ROM for the video card and placing it in a file that Xorg will use for
this card.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2597#c36
I don't have such rom in my /sys filesystem. But still I'm trying
Well, this is an explanation of what is happening.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2597#c52
Now my time is over. Will try again sometime in the future.
Some system BIOSes do not assign resources to any but the primary
VGA chip. This is an actual BIOS bug, and leaves the OS with little chance
to get it fired up after the fact - particularly if the VGA chip
resides on a bridged
PCI bus.
Regards,
Nelson.-
This is what i get with "X -configure" :
This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.
X Window System Version 1.2.99.905 (1.3.0 RC 5)
Release Date: 05 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.2.99.905
Build Operating System: Linux Debian
Current Operating System: Linux gaira 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26
17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686
Build Date: 06 April 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Apr 7 20:23:11 2007
List of video drivers:
s3
sis
radeon
tdfx
glint
voodoo
v4l
imstt
i810
tseng
r128
nvidia
siliconmotion
tga
chips
sisusb
cirrus
rendition
via
mga
nv
savage
s3virge
i740
ati
dummy
trident
vmware
i128
atimisc
cyrix
ark
nsc
apm
neomagic
newport
fbdev
vesa
vga
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
(WW) NVIDIA: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:5:1:0) found
(EE) Cannot find empty range to map base to
(EE) NV(1): Cannot read V_BIOS (3)
Xorg detected your mouse at device /dev/input/mice.
Please check your config if the mouse is still not
operational, as by default Xorg tries to autodetect
the protocol.
Xorg has configured a multihead system, please check your config.
Your xorg.conf file is /root/xorg.conf.new
To test the server, run 'X -config /root/xorg.conf.new'
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